Tag.



KAUFMAN HOLTZ, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

TAG.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 9, i918..

Application filed .T1113r 14, 1917. Serial No. 180,676.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, KAUFMAN HoLTz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invent-ed certain new and useful mprovements in Tags, of which the following is a specification. t

rllhe object of this invention is to provide the tags or tickets used to identify or describe cloth or any other flexible fabric with new and improved fasteners with which these 'tags or tickets are readily attached to the fabric and rigidly held in place thereon.

This and other objects of this invention will be fully illustrated in the drawing, described in the specification and pointed out in the claim at the end thereof.

in the accompanying drawing,

Figure l is a perspective View provided with the fasteners.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the fasteners.

Fig. 3 is a cross section through a piece of cloth with one of the labels attached thereto.

In the several figures of the drawing like reference numerals indicate like parts.

As shown in the figures each of the fasteners is bent up of a single piece of wire into the form of a staple which is provided with pin points l and 2 on one side and the loop 3 on the other side.

These staples are inserted into the tag 4f, preferably one near each corner thereof, and in such a manner that the loop 3 of each of the staples can be bent over the edge of the tag and folded over a portion of the back thereof.

Each of the of a label staples is thusrigidly held in place at suitable points on the tag 1l, the shanks of the pin points l and 2 are then offset with a shoulder 5 which projects toward the back of the label for a purpose that will presently appear.

W hen is desired to attach the tag l to a piece of fabric, one side thereof is hooked into the fabric until the pin points l and 2 of the staples project through the cloth and emerge on the other side thereof. rl'he Shanks of the pin oints l and 2, which have been previously ent to project with the back of the tag, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, press snugly against the back of the fabric after the staples are hooked into it.

When in this position the offset or shoul- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,

der 5, provided on each of the jects into the fabric and acts as a retainer for each of the shanks which prevents them from sliding out of engagement with the fabric after they are engaged therewith.

When one end of the tag l is hooked into the fabric as above pointed out, the portion of the fabric tc which the other end of the tag is to be attached is moved toward the portion of the fabric which isalready attached to it. In doing this the length of the fabric bends out and away from the label into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. ln this position the pin points of the staples on the free end of the label are hooked into the fabric so that when the fabric is again straightened out the shanks of these pin points pass through the fabric and engage it in the same manner as did the shanks of the staples on the opposite end of the tag.

The tag is thus the fabric Shanks, prosnugly held in place on and cannot accidentally detach itself from it as the shoulder 5 prevents the Shanks of the staples from sliding out of engagement with the fabric and also for the reason that the fabric, when being straightened out after the second set of staples is hooked into it, is shortened, as the distance of the fabric between the points of engageinent is shortened, which prevents the shanks from sliding one way or the other so that the label cannot come off after once being attached thereto.

I claim:

A. tag comprising' a ticket having' a series of staples attached thereto, each of said staples comprising a single piece of wire, said wire being bent into the form of a loop on one side thereof-and terminating into a pair of pin points on the other side thereof, Shanks connecting said pin pointsl with said loop, said Shanks passing through said ticket, the portions of said shanks projecting through the front of said ticket and terminating in said loop being folded over the edge of said ticket and on to the back thereof, the p0rtions of said shank projecting through the back of said ticket said ticket and having a shoulder oifset therein, said shoulder projecting toward the back of said ticket. i

ln testimony whereof I ax my signature.

KAUFMAN HOLTZ.

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